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by **Ouchyfish** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:49 pm

LONDON (Reuters) - It was every museum-goer's nightmare -- a stumble, a crash and thousands of pounds worth of historic fragments lying on the floor.

The incident happened last week at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, which for decades has displayed a group of Qing dynasty Chinese vases on a window sill.

A hapless visitor tripped on his shoelace, tumbled down a flight of stairs and crashed into the vases, smashing them into smithereens.

The man, who has not been named, left the museum shaken but undamaged -- in sharp contrast to the vases.

"It was a most unfortunate and regrettable accident but we are glad that the visitor involved was able to leave the museum unharmed," museum director Duncan Robinson said Monday.

"Whilst the method of displaying objects is always under review, it is important not to over-react and make the Museum's collections less accessible to the visiting public," he added in a statement.

The priceless vases, dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, were donated to the museum in 1948 and have become one of its most recognizable exhibits.

Shocked but determined, museum staff have vowed to glue the pieces back together again.

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If it had happened here lawyers would be trying to sue the museum.

by **Phlegm** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:54 pm

Well that's what you get if you leave breakable vases right at the bottom of a flight of stairs.

by **Captain Insano** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:19 am

thats just too awesome for words. I want to destroy something priceless! When do I get my shot?

by **Donnel** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:27 am

Meet me there next week I will push ya.

by **Ouchyfish** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:32 pm

Let's get a two-fer..push me into him.

by **Donnel** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:04 pm

Nyuck Nyuck

by **Captain Insano** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:26 pm

given the opportunity I would love to burn the Mona Lisa just to watch all the artsy fag people fucking cry about that shitty painting.

by **Ouchyfish** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:11 pm

hahaaha

by **Tuggan** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:12 pm

by **Yamori** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:34 am

captain_insano wrote:thats just too awesome for words. I want to destroy something priceless! When do I get my shot?

DIG THIS QING - IM SICK OF YOUR DYNASTY! *Crash*

by **Captain Insano** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:30 am

heheh... I would really break something completely priceless and valued by millions given the opportunity. Destruction gives me a hard on.

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